190 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2°C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three decades has meant that governments have generally viewed large spending programs as politically undesirable. In this context, the Global Financial Crisis... Read more
Part I: Introduction
1. Too Big to Fail
2. Green Keynesianism and its Discontents
3. Global Organizations: Helping or Hindering Green Keynesianism?
Part II: Case Studies
4. The Low-Hanging Fruit: Home Retrofits
5. Product Subsidies and the Paradox of Green Consumption
6. Green (Washed) Infrastructure
7. Technological Innovation and the Venture Capitalist State
Part III: Conclusions
8. A Waste of a Good Crisis?
Bibliography
Biography
Kyla Tienhaara is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University.
